Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 60.36
Liaison Shane Stennes
Submission Date Aug. 2, 2011
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STARS v1.0

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Tier2-5: Weather-Informed Irrigation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Lester Potts
Grounds Superintendent
Facilities Management Landcare
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Does the institution use weather data or weather sensors to automatically adjust irrigation practices?:
Yes

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A brief description of how weather data or sensors are used:
The University has two weather stations that feed data to the computerized central controller. The controller runs all of the irrigation systems. The data is used to calculate evapotranspiration (ET) rates, then the controller sets run times based on the previous day's weather conditions. (This is done on 85% of our systems, our goal is 100%). The stations also have rain sensors that are set to shut down systems (rain delay) after we receive .25" of rain (this happens on 100% of our systems).

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